• Product Name: Borland Enterprise Server / VisiBroker
• Product Version: 6.5, 7.0, 8.0
• Product Component: Installer
• Platform/OS Version: All

Different versions of BES/VisiBroker show different behaviour in the selection and installation of the VisiBroker Services. In a production environment it may be desired to remove the services which are not covered by the license.  The following behaviour was observed under Windows 7 and Solaris 10 for both the GUI and console installers.


1.  BES 6.5 AppServer Edition with Tibco/SonicMQ/OpenJMS: All services are installed by default, no dialog appears to select or skip them.

2.  BES 6.5 VisiBroker Edition: VisiNotify, VisiSecure, VisiTime and VisiTransact can be exempted from installation, VisiSecure is always installed.

3.  VisiBroker 7.0 and above: Dialog with selection of services has no effect on installation, services are always installed.

The services VisiNotify, VisiTelcoLog, VisiTime and VisiTransact have frontend binaries which start the services. They are located in $VBROKERDIR\\bin.

VisiNotify:                                           \\bin\\visinotify (.exe)

VisiTelcoLog:                                      \\bin\\visitelcolog (.exe)

VisiTime:                                             \\bin\\timeserv (.exe)

VisiTransact:                                       \\bin\\ots (.exe)

Removing the frontend binaries will make the services unavailable. The accompanying libraries suffixes ( _p, 64, 64_p ) and file extensions ( dll, lib, a, so ) for the services can be deleted too. The files can be identified using the following wildcards.

                VisiNotify:                                        \\lib\\*cosnotify*

                VisiTelcoLog:                                   \\lib\\*telcolog*

                VisiTransact:                                    \\lib\\*ots*

VisiSecure has no executable but provides a library.  The files can be identified using the following wildcards.

                All Platforms:                                   \\lib\\*vbsec*

                Additional for Windows:                  \\bin\\vbsec.dll

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